It’s almost my 2nd blogiversary GIVEAWAY! Part 1

You know those people who absolutely love their birthdays? They plan extravegant parties every year and try to live it up the entire month of their birthday? Well I’m going to be like that for my blogiversary. And to celebrate, I’m going to give back to you – my readers!

This blog started as a way to document recipes for myself and has turned into a full-on hobby. I really enjoy all the cooking/baking, photography, and writing associated with this blog. I’ve “met” so many cool people through food blogging and it has become a huge part of who I am. So Thank you for eating my baked goods! And thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read my blog.

As I mentioned, I’m going to celebrate all month long. My 2nd blogiversary is coming up on Friday August 28th, so I’m going to have 2 giveaways, each lasting 2 weeks long and having 2 winners, with an option to get up to 2 entries per person. I’m sorry to say, these giveaways are for US mailing addresses only (sorry international readers).

The theme for my giveaways is “A Few of my Favorite Things” (try reading that and not singing the song from Sound of Music). So what am I giving away? First, I’m giving away some eco-friendly treats. Hubby and I do what we can to have a “green” household. We have reusable grocery totes and bags, carry our BPA-free water bottles everywhere, only have one car, recycle, use energy efficient lightbulbs, and try to take public transportation whenever we can.

I will be giving away one item from the Eco Bottles collection, and one item from the Eco Lunchcollection (excluding the laptop bag) of the winner’s choice. Winners will be announced on August 14th.

Here’s how you enter – leave a comment by midnight on August 13th with the following information:– One way that you lead a “green” life– Which item you would like if you win (either an Eco Bottles or an Eco Lunch item, excluding the laptop bag)– A way for me to get ahold of you (email address is fine)– Only one entry per person– Sorry, no international entries

And, if you’d like to have a second chance to win, that is simple too.– If you have a food blog: create and blog about something from my blog. New blog entries only and please link back to this page (you can even take the giveaway logo if you want). Then leave another comment here linking back to your blog post.– If you don’t have a food blog: create something from my blog and shoot me an email with a pic and your thoughts on the dish

86 Responses to “It’s almost my 2nd blogiversary GIVEAWAY! Part 1”

yay one year of fabulous things in the kitchen!! We are green by using green bags and recycling. My work is also VERY green, in about every way imaginable!! i pick the french bull vine lunch bag as a great way to be green! Congratulations again!!

We are trying to be greener by using our own grocery bags but we forget them at home sometimes. Our newest green adventure is worm composting! our worms arrive this week and we look forward to reducing our garbage output!

I would love the Built Extra Relish Insulating Lunch Bag, the shoulder strap is handy!Thanks for the giveaway.

We are actually very green in my home. We recycle, compost, and use all natural cleaning products, and eat organic as much as possible. I’m very big into using reusable bags for stores. My husband thinks I’m crazy half the time but I do as much as I can to make sure my impact on the environment is as small as it can be.

we are just starting to try to convert into a green household. so far though, we only use the green grocery bags, no more plastic or paper ones for us….ive always switched most of my cleaning products so that im just using water and vinegar…

Cool Giveaway! I love those lunch totes, and have been wanting one. So that’s what I would choose.

I try to be as green as I can. I use reusable totes at the grocery. Also, despite my TINY apartment, I collect all my glass, aluminum, plastic, and paper/cardboard recycling. Then I lug it all to a recycling center. (NOT the kind that pays you for your items either). And I’m a big stickler for turning the lights out (even though I use the energy efficient bulbs), and I keep the tv off as often as I can. For a while I even rode my bike to work, but it no longer works now that I work a night shift.

If I win (though I never do) you can reach me at erinsfoodfiles at gmail dot com. 😀

We are currently cleaning/packing to move, and won’t throw anything usable away – we are trying to sell everything usable to 2nd hand stores or donate them – it pains me so much when I see people throwing perfectly good furniture away in the dumpster!

Oooo…I love this Built Extra Relish Insulated Lunch Bag Micro Dot! We are trying to be green too, we use reusable Chico Bags for groceries and shopping, Sigg water bottles, recycle, etc.. Happy blogaversary!!!! Here’s to many more delicious meals!

We are green by recycling, keeping our a/c at a reasonable temp, and using vinegar to clean as much possible. I would love to win one of the Eco Bottles prizes. My email is lelizrn@gmail.com. Thank you!

We’ve been working hard at greening up our home/family since January. School lunches were a big thing and now we’re totally green there too. Yea, us! Getting my mitts on one of those cool lunch bags would be perfect.Thanks for the chance to win and congrats on your blog-versary!~Michelle

I love your blog congrats on the blogiversary! I use my envirosaks for grocery shopping, and at work we receycle paper!, I would love to get the insulated lunch bag in french bull vine, I will probable get it if I don’t win!! Thanks flurries at hotmail.com

We recycle, bring our own bags to the store, and have been switching our light bulbs over to CFL. I love the multidot lunch bag. I have been coveting insulated lunch bags like these for quite some time now.

Hi!! Congratulations on the anniversary. I try to be green by using a Sigg water bottle for my daily water consumption. Since I already have a Sigg bottle, I would love the Built Extra Relish Insulated Lunch Bag (Micro Dot). Basically the one pictured on your blog. Big and cute. Love it! Thanks for the giveaway offer!!

I belong to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture): I purchased a share in the springtime, and now I receive a basket of seasonal produce each week at the farmer’s market. I would love to win the Safe Sippy Bottle for my neice. She turns one next month- yay for one year celebrations!

There’s no recycling at the apartment building I live in (the landlord doesn’t have a separate recycling bin for the tenants to use), so I hoard all of my recyclables (papers, plastics, glass) and set it out with the neighboring business’s recycling on trash day.

Congrats! What a great blog giveaway! One way that we are going “green” is by recycling. We have also pitched in with our friends next door to make sure that everything is being recycled! I would love to receive the Built NY Lunch bag! My email addy is stefaniehunn (at) gmail (dot) com.

Congratulations! We try to be as green as we can. We use canvas tote bags when we grocery shop, we ride our bikes to the farmers market, and we have replaced all of the light bulbs in our house with cfl bulbs! If I won, I would pick the French Bull Vine lunch bag.

Not only are we taking our re-usable bags to the grocers, buying organic and banning disposable items from out lives, I’ve also become more conscious of my dish washing habits.

I’m being careful to remember to recycle my gray water! We use biodegradable dish soap and when I rinse my dishes I make sure the water falls into a large bowl. I later use it to water my plants, trees, etc.

Learn more about gray water to save some money on your water bill, and save the planet, too!

We’ve done lots of things to go green around our house lately. No more plastic bags, we bring our own. We cloth diaper and line dry. We use stainless steel reusable bottles for water. And we’re starting up a garden to name a few things.

I’d definitely be interested in the Built Extra Relish Insulated Lunch Bag Black. So cute!

Jen, congrats on outstanding work on your blog. I do not want either of your gifts, just send cupcakes. Brooke made some great cupcakes last weekend. If you get to Illinois, I could show you the work that I am doing in sustainable landscaping. By properly selecting the right plants, you have less mowing, use less water, less fertilizer and less pesticides.

Happy 2 year blogiversary!! It’s so cliche but… time flies when you’re having fun! While I’m not the “greenest” person, you know those notes in hotel bathrooms where you can use the towels more than once to conserve energy by reducing laundry? Yup! That’s me. I’m a towel reuser. Oh and I try to recycle my soda cans and water bottles whenever possible. It’s a start right? I’d love to win the lunchbag. I hope I win!/Clara

I currently have a very unfashionable little tote which holds nothing so I would love the Insulated Lunch tote — it’s part of my green living. I bring lunch every day in plastic containers and have been skipping out on using plastic bags! I also recycle and use refillable water bottles instead of buying them!

Happy Blogiversary! We are doing our part for the enviroment by using canvas bags for groceries, reusing water bottles, recycling. I like the Gourmet Getaway Insulated Lunch Bag Nolita Stripe lunchbag. Thanks for the giveaway! I LOVE the Harry Potter cupcakes! paislie98 at hotmail dot com

Congratulations!!One green thing I do is bring reusable bags when I’m out grocery or clothes shopping. I can actually carry more in my bag than the plastic bags they give out at the store.I would LOVE the gourmet insulated lunch bag with the rainbow flowers.Thanks!

Love the microdot lunch bag!Just found your great blog a few weeks ago, searching for pulled bbq pork. Thanks! We bike as much as possible or if the snow is too deep take the bus to work. Also we put in suntubes in some dark spaces in the house to cut down on light usage.

Happy 2 year! i try to be green by not drinking from bottled water, but the water fountain and using a plastic cup. i also reuse cups when i go to the gas station to get a soda. I actually would want the exact lunch bag that you are going to get if i were to win!

Happy Blogiversary!! I do lots of things to help the environment, one being using reusable bags. And if we do get a plastic bag from somewhere it becomes a trash liner. We also use cloth napkins at every meal – makes us feel a little fancy! We recycle like madmen anything and everything. I run a business so anything that comes through the mail ends up being sent in someone to my clients. Rarely is something thrown away if it can find a home somewhere else.

Love the French Bull Vine although the Dot No. 7 would match my insulated bottle tote.

well, we carpool downtown to work. we recycle like crazy. we have energy efficient in all of our lights (waiting to replace some until they burn out). biodegradable doggie poopie bags. pur water pitcher. trying to grow veggies & herbs although the squirels keep getting to them before we can! eat organic produce. i use real forks when i take my lunch to work. i dig your blog. and the sigg water bottle. happy blogiversary.

Happy Blogiversary!! DH and I recycle all of our paper, plastic and glass, sorting in separate bins and leave it our to be picked up by the town every other week!I have tried to start using resuable grocery bags, but I have been bad about forgetting them.

I have been wanting to get a reusable lunch bag for a year or so now……just have not got around to it. So that is what I would love if I win….Built Extra Relish Insulated Lunch Bag Micro Dot.

We buy all of our produce that we can locally grown, we use re-useable sacks at the store, we recycle, we collect water to water plants/yard, and I’m HOPING next year to build a composting site As far as products, I’m really diggin’ the extra relish built lunchbag. That thing is awesome. And a shoulder strap! Swoon!

One way that I lead a green life is by using canvas tote bags at the grocery instead of wasting all those plastic bags.

I think the Eco Lunch items are awesome and I would love to take my lunch to work in one of those. I would definitely choose the Built Extra Relish Insulated Lunch Bag Micro Dot. My e-mail is krashed24@aol.com

What I do that’s so green, and hope to encourage others to do, is use the pressure cooker to make daily food, as they do in India and other countries which have limited fuel (as in energy). You cut cooking time by 50 to 70% by using the pressure cooker for dishes such as soups, stews, chili, whole grains, vegetables, curries, steel cut oats and much more. such as chicken and meat but I am too green to eat those things. (Basically anything with liquid.)

I started using the reusable bags every time I grocery shop. And if I must get plastic bags, I use those a second time for dog clean up. I’ve asked my coworkers to bring me their plastic bags as well, so I can recycle them.

I would like the Insulating Lunch bag. Both my husband and I try and bring our lunches every day. Thanks so much for the awesome blogs. I love reading them.

we do several things to go green- I use vinegar and water to clean most everything, we re-use any bags that come into the house, which is not many since I use re-usable shpping bags. We also use cloth napkins instead of paper ones and rags instead of paper towels (for most things). I would love a lunch tote! that is so cute!

Great blog! We are green by drying all our laundry the old fashioned way–outside and on laundry racks…our clothing lasts longer, our electricity bill is lower, and we are doing one small thing to treat the earth better! I love the lunch bag, what a great way to be earth friendly!

The biggest way I live green is cloth diapering. It has become an addiction and I love converting others to cloth. If I won I’d choose the Lunch in French Bull Vine. It’s beautiful. I often tote lunch for me and my kiddos to playdates. My email is writetanya@gmail.com.

I’ve started only using reusable bottles/travel mugs for water and coffee and I am always sure to use reusable containers for lunch. I also try to eat local organic as much as possible. It’s been a great and rewarding challenge to “go green”!

Happy Blogiversary!Green Green Green! I’ve been carrying my own shopping bags for over 10 years, consolidate my errands, recycle everything possible. Freecycle Group in this area is fabulous. For the past year I’ve been running the kitchen faucet and the shower into a large watering can to save water while waiting for hot water. I use the water in my garden. I also save the water from rinsing vegetables for the garden. Carpool when possible or take public transit. I would love an eco water bottle!Thanks!

In our household we recycle everything that we can, we’ve converted almost all of our light bulbs, and we re-use bags, boxes etc. We also try to save electricity by unplugging things we aren’t using etc.

W eare greener, by using the cloth bags for grocery shopping, we recycle, and I have sseveral re-useable bottles/cup for my favorite coffe stop StArBuCkS… (plus it saves me 10 cents when I use them. =))

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